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INDIAN CLUB.

- N0. 275,627. Patented Apr. 10,1883.

@ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. FOSTER AND WELLS I. DUDLEY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONN.

INDIAN CLUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 275,627, dated April 10, 1883.

Application filed January 20, 1883. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CHARLES W. FOSTER and WELLS W. DUDLEY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Indian Clubs; and we do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view of our improved Indian club, and Fig. 2 is a detail view of one of the detachable weights.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Our invention has relation to Indian clubs; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a club provided with detachable weights, whereby the weight of the club may be increased or decreased at will by adding or removing weights, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the body, and B the handle, of a club formed in the usual shape.- The handle is detachable from the body of the club, and fits with a tenon, G, into the upper end of a cylindrical recess, D, which passes longitudinally through the center of the body.

A rod or bar, E, passes through the full length of the recess in the center of the same, and is fastened at its lower end in a nut, F, which is screwed upon the end of the rod. This nut is inserted into the recess from the lower end of the same, and is fastened near the end of it by any desirable means, whereupon the hole left thus open atthat end may be filled by a Wooden plug glued in it.

The weights G are disk-shaped, of'a slightly smaller diameter than the recess, and provided with holes H in their centers, which admit of their sliding on the rod. These weights are held in place between a cushion, I, at the bottom of the recess, fastened upon the end of the rod, and a spiral spring, J, wound around therod, the lower-end of which bears against the upper weight, while its upper end bears against the under side of the tenon O of the handle, which is fastened to the body by the upper screw-threaded end, K, ofthe rod E, fitting into a screw-threaded hole, L, in the center of the tenon.

It will thus be seen that by unscrewing the handle and removing the spiral spring weights may be added or removed at will, increasing or decreasing the weight of the club, as may be desired, and that at the same time the bandle will be rigidly fastened to the body, when screwed onto it, by the tenon fitting into the recess.

It will also be seen that the spiral spring will keep the weights from moving upon the rod when the club is swung, and that the cushion at the bottom of the recess will prevent the weights from striking it so as to injure it in sliding them down upon the rod or in swinging the club.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- As an improvement in Indian clubs, the combination and arrangement of the body A, having cylindrical recess D and central rod, E, fixed in the bottom of the recess, handle B, having cylindrical tenon 0, female screw-threaded at L, elastic buffer I, annular weights G, and spiral spring J, all constructed to operate as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereunto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES W. FOSTER. WELLS W. DUDLEY.

Witnesses CHAS. KLEINER, JULIUS Twrss. 

